duxut_staglatz

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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
What's the new category? Currently in France there is: - employment where you trade liberty (i.e. subordination) against protection (can't be fired at will, minimum wage, guaranteed income set in the contract...) from a company -
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
You are conflating Uber and the Uber driver. The driver does not quote anything, Uber does and both the driver and the customer accept or not. They have a very limited way to choose the ride they take: they have to make the decision in a co
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Only if Uber chooses to, it does not have to.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Yes. Changing the itinerary as well.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
There is nothing that prevents Uber from providing flexibility. The court has not ruled that Uber contracts were illegal, but that they were employment contracts (obviously, with the flexible hours Uber is known for) rather than (Uber) comp
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Are you implying that French courts change their rulings to benefit the government policies (hurting foreign companies in this case) rather than simply basing them on the law?
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
While it is possible to argue against it on a philosophical ground, in French law contracts are not the most basic construct, and they have to comply with higher legal norms such as law or the constitution. Hence a contact must be "rei
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Labour law (in France at least, I do not know about the US) is based on - for the lack of a better expression - reals over feelz: what matters is the actual relationship between the driver and Uber, not whether either party felt surprise at
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
My plumber is an actual independent worker, setting his own rates, having his own clientele and free to organize his work as he sees fit.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
This is a different point that the one I made.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Indeed, now they can (but do not have to) require regular shifts.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
They cannot force French drivers to work certain hours (under their current contracts), but this is not relevant to their work status: > The fact that the driver is not obliged to connect to the platform and that this absence of connecti
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Do they work with limited supervision? The company imposes the itinerary and the driver’s fare is adjusted if this itinerary is not followed. The monitoring is automatic instead of having a boss peering over your shoulder.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
A significant part of health care expenses are covered by _mutuelles_, (now mandatory) employer-provided, non-profit health insurance 'companies'. According to wikipedia [0], about 75% of health spending goes through the governmen
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
It is called Guyane in French. Given that the locals are not English native speakers, I fail to see how the English name influences their national identity.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
This is not a lie if these changes do not do anything but later ones will.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Growth can come both from using more inputs (capital, energy, labor) or using the same input more efficiently (i.e. technological progress). There is no reason to claim that only technological progress induced growth counts as growth but wh
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
This is especially at the world stage. In a zero-sum economy, either some countries are left in an awful state of poverty for ever (no growth, same distribution of income) or people from rich countries must significantly decrease their cons
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Ok, so you are agreeing with the comment you said you were disagreeing with (zero sum economy means if someone increases their amount of stuff, someone else must have less stuff, otherwise the amount of stuff would not stay constant). You a
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Durable goods obfuscate the issue, but let's take your example. Let's say I want to have both an all-terrain car for the weekend and my regular car on the weekdays. I now consume two new cars very ten years instead of one. The sam
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
So if 1. the same amount of goods and services is produced and 2. you get more goods and/or services this year than last year, this means than 3. someone else must have less goods or services this year. I do not follow where this was i
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
You’re only talking about the “income tax” (IR), leaving out the CSG, a flat tax on income, and the various social contributions, which are based on labour income. The CSG brings more money to the Government than the IR, anyway.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
SF (or SOF for Americans) would better be light infantry: >Light infantry is a designation applied to certain types of foot soldiers (infantry) throughout history, typically having lighter equipment or armament or a more mobile or fluid
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
See [0] for the "credibility revolution" [0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.24.2.3
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Is there nothing between RCTs and "high-fives" to estimate causal effects? Economists seem to run awfully long journal articles if they all boil down to high fives.
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
For essentially three reasons: - ethics. Example: is democracy good for economic growth? Of course one could randomly engineer coups in some countries but that's probably not appropriate. - cost. Example: how much do people change thei
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
Do you have any evidence that this was the reason why the prize was established?
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
It is important to note that business-related property (i.e. your firm, if you also work in it) was not taxed; primary residence value was 70% of the market value; art was not taxed; many investments in small companies or other investments
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
That's evidence for a concave utility function wrt income, not logarithmic per se. But your first link does cite evidence that _if_ utility is CRRA, we are not far from the case where utility is logarithmic
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by duxut_staglatz 7y ago
This was a problem for the federal income tax as well, which was solved.

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